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• It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."

  Rene Descartes

  Hate, Care, Seduction

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• Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).

  Richard L. Evans

  Love, Morning, Work

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• The Creative Revolution is over. Everybody is justholding onto their jobs and no one is ever going to say toa client... ‘Buy this or I’ll resign your account.’ You don’tdo it anymore. It’s now, the majority of the time... ‘How do you like it? When can I change it for you?’

  Jerry Della Femina

  Jobs, Creative, Majority

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• This door's wide-open now. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.

  Gavin Newsom

  Doors, Happens, Wide

  "Prop. 8 Reignites Calif. Same-Sex Marriage Battle". "NPR News" with Karen Grigsby Bates, www.npr.org. October 11, 2008.

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• Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

  Os Guinness

  Permission, Ought

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• Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

  Saint Augustine

  Happy Life, Catholic, Path

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.104

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• One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.

  Karen MacNeil

  Reading, Wine, Two

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• We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.

  James Warburg

  World Government, Consent, Conquest

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• Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well

  Germaine Greer

  Children, War, Love You

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• ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  World, Enough, Ifs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.55, 谷月社

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• Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

  Max Eastman

  Men, Patriotism, Vices

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• I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you read me?' If they say 'Yes,' I say, 'Do you like it?' If they say 'No,' then I say, 'I don't write for you.'

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Trying, Ifs

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• Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.

  Kiera Cass

  Love, Heart, Break

  "The One". Book by Kiera Cass, 2014.

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• The music is just very specifically [designed] to get you energized. That's the great thing about those situations: I have no choice. It completely takes over your body and pushes you, like it was designed to do. I'm constantly surrounded by music, energy, and experiences that put me in that state of cheer.

  Andrew W.K.

  Cheer, Choices, Over You

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't

  Gram Parsons

  Music, Country, Thinking

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• You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Eye, Sculpture

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• I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her fans: you are in an open relationship whether you like it or not. Give the artist room to go into the place they create (literally or metaphorically) . And love them when they can't remember where they put their keys.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Thinking, Keys

  "An Evening With Neil Gaiman And Amanda Palmer: Ask Us Anything. Go On. Go On You Know You Want To". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 19, 2013.

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• After a conversation with someone that went on all night, but I didn't take much persuading, and the next day I was a vegetarian. It came down to one question, can you be healthy without killing animals? If the answer is 'yes' then the only reason you're killing is because you like the taste. But you can't take a life just because you like its taste.

  Martin Shaw

  Animal, Night, Next Day

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Selfish, Halfway There, Doing You

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• It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Long, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.43, Criss Jami

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• How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Cultural Relativism, Hunger, Hungry

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, September 1, 2004.

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• I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.

  Helene Hanff

  Book, Home, Despair

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• I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Mean, Equality

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• Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Daughter, Book, Cat

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.180, Bantam

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• I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Power, Who I Am, Watches

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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